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To: djsherin
I stand corrected. I was referring to the bill of rights.
27 posted on 02/09/2009 7:28:23 PM PST by Right Brother
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To: Right Brother

Ah I see.

What I find interesting is that some federalists (like Madison I believe, but don’t quote me) actually believed the bill of Rights was redundant since the idea behind the 10th Amendment was implied and explicitly reserved by at least Virginia’s ratifying convention. The other Amendments too protected rights that the government couldn’t take away anyway since they served no federal interest in the delegated powers Article I Section 8 and the suspension of said rights was not “necessary or proper” for carrying out the delegated powers.

Although seeing as the government has so ignored the Constitution, I’m glad they decided to have a Bill of Rights.


28 posted on 02/09/2009 7:33:35 PM PST by djsherin (Government is essentially the negation of liberty.)
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